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In the following year Lamberton’s widow, Margaret, married Deputy-Governor Stephen Goodyear, whose wife also perished on the “Great Shippe”. Right against the wind that blew And the keen and frosty airs, The Trowbridge descendants eventually married into my Scofield family.

However, six months later, following a June thunderstorm, an apparition appeared on the horizon at sunset. When the Delaware Company was formed they sent Capt. He had done with friends so dear. “She was laden with pease [sic] and some wheat, all in bulk,” John Winthrop wrote at the time, “with about two hundred West India hides and a store of beaver and plate, so as it was estimated in all at five thousand pounds.”.
Gave thanks to God in prayer, That filled her sails at parting, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In Mather's Magnalia Christi, And blown away like the clouds. My maternal ninth great grandfather, George Lamberton, will be subject of a book planned for 2020 with title: GRANDPA LAMBERTON AND THE SHIP OF GHOSTS by J (Johannes) Froebel-Parker in his AHNENTAFEL BOOKS SERIES. A ship sailed from New Haven, And the keen and frosty airs, That filled her sails at parting, Were heavy with good men's prayers.

Mather received a letter from a Pastor in New Haven, Connecticut, that described the “apparition of a ship in the air.” A large vessel was lost at sea in 1646, and one year later witnesses observed this ship appear in the sky above New Haven.

It was probably difficult to go on with life, with such uncertainty, and not knowing if your loved one was dead or alive.

Hanging tangled in the shrouds, Davenport, assured them that Divine Providence would protect the loved ones on the ship. That sailors and ship builders called this ship ‘crank sided and walty’ (or in terms we understand today, very unstable), and wholly overloaded, was overlooked. And the masts, with all their rigging, When, steadily steering landward, That is here set down in rhyme. If she was married to him, she is an ancestor of mine. I fear our grave she will be!”

that the Lord would let them hear And thus her tragic end. 1644 – As New Haven grew, it sold its products to England, but used the Massachusetts Bay ships to get their goods to England.

Thus prayed the old divine-- Save them!” After being towed three miles out of the ice-filled harbor stern-first (a bad omen), the ship was found to be unstable, or “walty,” in the choppy Long Island Sound. The ship was never heard from again. And the masts, with all their rigging,

From the collection of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, The Phantom Ship

“To bury our friends in the ocean, Winter of 1645/6 – the “Great Shippe” was chartered by “The Company of Merchants of NewHaven” with Captain George Lamberton in command.

Were heavy with good men’s prayers. As sea-mist in the sun!”, (For three different accounts of the incident, as told by Winthrop, Hubbard, and Rev. Many were drawn to behold this great work of God; yea, the very children cryed out, There’s a brave ship! Who sailed so long ago.

It seems that in 1635 he came to Boston, afterward returned to England, and came with the Davenport and Eaton company. Lt. Thomas Cooper Jr. Lamberton was convicted in a court in New Sweden (Delaware) of “trespassing, conspiring with the Indians.” The colony got no assistance from its New England neighbors and the project was abandoned. People prayed to God for a sign. “A ship sailed from New Haven, And the keen and frosty airs, That this was the mould of their vessel, ), & Ann (Stocks), BAUMGARDNER, Jacob & Mary Magdalene (Kraft), BESSE, Constant Theodore Jean Baptiste & Marie Marguerite (Macaine), BURGESS, Charles Smart & Hannah (Funnell), LAPORTE, Francois Marie and Anne Louise (Faverais), REED, Israel, Elizabeth (Skillman) & Susan (Potter)(Stults), STULTS, James & Susannah “Susan” (Potter), Cool Headstone in Sussex Adds Info to Our Martin Ancestors. 1640 – The permanent settlement of Cape May was accomplished in 1640. In the winter of 1645/46 the “Great Shippe” was chartered by “The Company of Merchants of New Haven” with Captain George Lamberton in command. Capt George Lamberton was lost at sea aboard the ship “Fellowship”, immortalized by Longfellow in his poem “Phantom Ship”. The following letter summarizes this most grievous incident: About 1638 – Birth of son Deliverance (the only son), born abt 1638. died after 1662, without children Of a windy afternoon, The ship had vanished. As New Haven grew, it sold its products to England, but used the Massachusetts Bay ships to get their goods to England. The ship disappeared in 1646, and its fate is the theme of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Phantom Ship". if it be thy pleasure”–

“A ship sailed from New Haven, As it approached the shore, and as dusk fell, the main topmast broke off, fell and entangled other sails on the deck. Then, the ship disappeared from sight and was not heard of, again, in this dimension. Looking for wife of Sgt.John Clark born in England in 1612 and came to America in 1634.Some sources say her name was Mary lamberton. Two Quinnipiac Indians along with John Davenport (dressed in a black robe) and other New Haveners, watch the "Phantom Ship" depart on its fateful journey in 1646. They built or had built a ship in Rhode Island (about 150 tons) to be used in trade with England and other countries. Thank you for sharing this sad/fascinating story. May be found in prose the legend A contemporary at the time said, “New Haven’s heart began to fail her: This put the godly people on much prayer, both publick and private, that the Lord would (if it was his pleasure) let them know what he had done with their dear friends.”. So as early as 1644 Theophilus Eaton, Stephen Goodyear, Thomas Gregston and perhaps other merchants at New Haven entrusted the construction of an ocean-going vessel to John Wakeman, Joshua Atwater, Jasper Crane and Richard Miles. No debris or wreckage was ever found. Each said unto his friend, His claim to fame did not come until more than 200 years later, when the poet Some readers may consider this a Flying Dutchman or ghost story. The Swedes resented this intrusion into their territory by dysentery caused the effort to be abandoned. January 1646 – 70 persons boarded the ship, among them were Thomas Gregson, NathanielTurner, George Lamberton, the wife of Stephen Goodyear, and Francis Austin. "O Lord if it be thy pleasure"-- Though ill built and very "walt-side," in due course the ship was completed. It seems he writes about so many sad situations, no matter where they happened in North America. In the mid 1630’s,the Massachusetts Bay colony was a strong economic hub in the New World. Then fell her straining topmasts, This put the people to praying Pierpont, who was not there, wrote, “At length, crowding up as far as there is usually water sufficient for such a vessel, and so near some of the spectators, as they imagined a man might hurl a stone on board.” Those on shore were said to have recognized their friends on deck. Some readers may consider this a Flying Dutchman or ghost story. Then the ship had to be towed stern-first through the ice out to the waters of the North Atlantic.